Best TV 2017

Best TV 2017

I watched eighty six seasons of tv this year. Here are my top 14 picks for the year. This is based simply on the tv I watched this year, not on what was released this year.

Best and Worst Movies 2017

Best Movies 2017

I watched two-hundred and forty seven movies this year. Here are my top 19 and bottom 7 picks for the year. This is based simply on the movies I watched this year, not on what was released this year.

Best & Worst Movies 2017 Year-End Review

Best & Worst of 2017

I posted so many movie reviews I lost count. There was one week where I watched twelve movies.
Check out my previous reviews!

I watched two-hundred and forty seven movies this year. Here are my top 19 and bottom 7 picks for the year. This is based simply on the movies I watched this year, not on what was released this year.
Check out the previous year-end reviews.

I frequently forget to catalog the best scenes, but The Conjuring 2 nun scene stands out.

Best TV Series 2017 Year-End Review

Best & Worst of 2017

I watched eighty-six TV seasons and mini-series this year. Here are my top 14 for the year. There are no seasons that fell into the 'worst' category because  if a season/show is bad I drop it. This is based simply on what I watched this year, not on what was released this year.
Check out the previous year-end reviews.

The best pilot goes to Dark (2017). It immediately hooked me, granted it's also a show I've seen more recently. 

Manhunt: Unabomber Review

Manhunt: Unabomber (2017)
Mini-series - 8 episodes

Pottersville Movie Review

Pottersville (2017)

Fitzcarraldo Movie Review

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Also Watched - Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ash vs Evil Dead S1, Sugar

Also Watched - Star Wars: The Last Jedi,  Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1, Sugar

El Camino Christmas Review

El Camino Christmas (2017)
Watch El Camino Christmas on Netflix

The story follows a young man searching for his father, and through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve. A drifter, a drunk, a deputy, a reporter, and a single mom are about to experience a wild Christmas they never saw coming.  

Dark Season 1 Review

Dark (2017-)
Season 1 - 10 episodes (2017)
Watch Dark Season 1 on Netflix

In this German language series, a family mystery saga with a supernatural twist unfolds, taking the story back to 1986. Two missing children connect four families as they search for the kids in the present day.The question isn't who kidnapped the children, but when. The years 2019, 1986, and 1953 are somehow linked.

Bright Netflix Movie Review

Bright (2017)

The Last Seduction Movie Review

The Last Seduction (1994)

Ash vs Evil Dead Season 1 Review

Ash vs Evil Dead (2015-)
Season 1 -  10 episodes (2015)

Trollhunters Season 2 Netflix Series Review

Trollhunters (2016-)
Season 2 - 13 episodes (2017)

Sugar Movie Review

Sugar (2008)

Ultimate Beastmaster US Season 2 Netflix Series Review

Ultimate Beastmaster (2017-)
Season 2 - 10 episodes (2017) 

Breaking the Waves Movie Review

Breaking the Waves (1996)

Also Watched - Master and Commander, Hitch, The Naked Gun

Also Watched - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Hitch, The Naked Gun

Glitch Season 2 Review

Glitch (2016-)
Season 2 -  Episodes (2017)
Watch Glitch Season 2 on Netflix

In this Netflix distributed series set in Australia, a police constable is called to a cemetery and discovers six people alive and risen from the dead, perfectly healthy.
The newly living have no memories, and the police constable and  town doctor struggle to keep the case secret and determine who these people are, discovering that each of them is inexplicably linked.

Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi (2017)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Movie Review

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie Review

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

The Sweet Hereafter Movie Review

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Dark Season 1 Netflix Series Review

Dark (2017-)
Season 1 - 10 episodes (2017)

The Naked Gun Movie Review

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Hitch Movie Review

Hitch (2005)

Netflix and Dreamworks Will Premiere 6 New Original Series in 2018

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Season 1 (January 19, 2018)
She-Ra Season 1 (2018)
The Boss Baby: Back in Business Season 1 (2018)
Harvey Street Kids Season 1 (2018)
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Season 1 (2018)
3 Below Season 1 (2018)

Also Watched - Coco, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The Glass Castle

Also Watched - Coco, The Hitman's Bodyguard, The Glass Castle

Godless Mini-series Review

Godless (2017)
Mini-series - 7 episodes (2017)
Watch Godless on Netflix

This 1800s era Western features Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) as an outlaw gang leader hunting down his former partner Roy Goode who is hiding at a ranch owned by Alice (Michelle Dockery).

El Camino Christmas Netflix Movie Review

El Camino Christmas (2017)

The Glass Castle Movie Review

The Glass Castle (2017)

Moonstruck Movie Review

Moonstruck (1987)

Glitch Season 2 Netflix Series Review

Glitch (2016-)
Season 2 -  Episodes (2017)

A Christmas Prince Netflix Movie Review

A Christmas Prince (2017) 

The Hitman's Bodyguard Movie Review

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

Coco Movie Review

Coco (2017)

Also Watched - Justice League, Free Fire, Tangerine

Also Watched - Justice League, Free Fire, Tangerine

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond Review

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
Watch Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond on Netflix

Jim Carrey earned a Golden Globe for portraying Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999). In this documentary Carrey looks at behind the scenes footage captured by Kaufman's former girlfriend Lynne Margulies and former writing partner Bob Zmuda. Carrey and Kaufman share similar background stories and Carrey discusses channeling Kaufman and Kaufman's alter ego Tony Clifton while broadly discussing his own career.

The Punisher Season 1 Review

The Punisher (2017-)
Season 1 - episodes (2017)
Watch The Punisher Season 1 on Netflix

After the murder of his family, Frank Castle is both haunted and hunted. In the criminal underworld, he'll become known as The Punisher.
After exacting revenge on those responsible for the death of his wife and children, Frank Castle uncovers a conspiracy that runs far deeper than New York’s criminal underworld.

New in Theaters for December

A lot of movies are premiering in December, but only a few of them interest me. This is why they might be worth watching... or avoiding.

WATCHING

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (December 15, 2017)

Godless Netflix Series Review

Godless (2017)
Mini-series - 7 episodes

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond Netflix Documentary Review

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond  (2017)

Free Fire Movie Review

Free Fire (2016)

Also Watched - The Dark Tower, It Comes at Night, Allied

Also Watched - The Dark Tower, It Comes at Night, Allied

Mudbound Review

Mudbound (2017)
Watch Mudbound on Netflix

Premiering at the Sundance film festival, set in the post WWII south, returning soldiers Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) and Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) forge a friendship. Their parents both face hardships farming. Also stars Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, and Mary J. Blige.

The Punisher Season 1 Netflix Series Review

The Punisher (2017-)
Season 1 - 13 episodes (2017)

The Dark Tower Movie Review

The Dark Tower (2017)

It Comes at Night Movie Review

It Comes at Night (2017)

Also Watched - Maximum Overdrive, Dead Presidents, The Apostle, The Beguiled

Also Watched - Maximum Overdrive, Dead Presidents, The Apostle, The Beguiled, Thor: Ragnarok

Alias Grace Review

Alias Grace (2017)
Mini-series - 6 episodes (2017)
Watch Alias Grace on Netflix

Based on a true story and on the Margaret Atwood novel by the same name, a doctor researches the 1843 case where Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) was convicted, with a stablehand, of murdering Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin) and Thomas Kinnear (Paul Gross). Nancy was Thomas's housekeeper and lover who became jealous of Grace and fired her before being murdered.

Mudbound Netflix Movie Review

Mudbound (2017)

Tangerine Movie Review

Tangerine (2015)

Allied Movie Review

Allied (2016)

Star Wars: Episode VI Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Dave Chappelle: Equanimity Netflix Comedy Special Teaser

Dave Chappelle: Equanimity (2017)

The Apostle Movie Review

The Apostle (1997)

The Americans Season 5 Review

The Americans (2013-)
Season 5 - 13 episodes (2017)

Vice Principals Season 2 Review

Vice Principals (2016-2017)
Season 2 - 9 Episodes (2017)

Messiah Season 1 Netflix Series Coming in 2019

Messiah (2019-)
Season 1 - 10 episodes (2019)

Maximum Overdrive Movie Review

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

The Beguiled Movie Review

The Beguiled (2017)

Also Watched - Star Wars original trilogy, Thor: Ragnarok, The Americans S5

Also Watched - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Thor: Ragnarok, The Americans S5

1922 Review

1922 (2017)
Watch 1922 on Netflix

Based on a Stephen King novella where an unreliable narrator confesses to killing his wife, Arlette James wants to sell her family's land to a livestock company. If she does so her husband Wilfred's family property will become unfarmable. To stop it Wilfred resorts to manipulating his teenage son Henry to help murder Arlette.

Dead Presidents Movie Review

Dead Presidents (1995)

Star Wars: Episode V Movie Review

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Jackie Movie Review

Jackie (2016)

Alias Grace Netflix Series Review

Alias Grace (2017)
Mini-series - 6 episodes (2017)

Stranger Things Season 2 Review

Stranger Things (2016-)
Season 2 - episodes (2017)

Watch Stranger Things Season 2 on Netflix

Season one was set in 1983 where a mother tries to find her son after he disappears mysteriously in the small town of Hawkins.
Season 2 is set one year later, and is more of a sequel than continuation. A new monster emerges from the upside down to wreak havoc in Hawkins. All of the main cast from season 1 return, there are more scenes in the upside down world, more monsters, and additional settings.
The Duffer brothers have confirmed season 3, and are planning a season 4 as the last season.

The Babysitter Review

The Babysitter (2017)
Watch The Babysitter on Netflix

In this horror-comedy, a boy infatuated with his babysitter discovers she's part of a satanic cult that wants to kill him.

Also Watched - Room 104, Elephant, Vice Principals, The Decue, Orville

Also Watched - Room 104, Elephant, Vice Principals, The Deuce, Orville

Thor: Ragnarok Movie Review

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)